Sabre debuts open community platform to showcase emerging innovations Sabre Corporation has launched a new online community site to share prototypes and some of its latest innovations with the travel industry. Source: Hotel Marketing
Top 10 hotel trends for 2016 2016 promises to be the most profitable year our industry has ever seen due to strong rate growth, minimal supply impact, low interest rates and oil prices and a somewhat minimal impact from disruptors like Airbnb, living wage bills and health care costs. Source: Hotel Marketing
Booking.com shows true colours of a dominant player The threat of legal action to prevent hotels using TripTease’s Price Check widget shows how seriously Booking.com is taking the situation. The message is clear: play by our rules or don’t play at all. That explains also why an “overwhelming” amount of hotels support TripTease, but don’t want to come out publicly. Source: Hotel Marketing
Many hoteliers fail to secure highly lucrative GDS bookings GDS distribution and travel agents remain an overlooked yet lucrative source of revenue for hoteliers, because many are looking at them the wrong way. Especially when you factor in cost of distribution, GDS bookings can offer hotels a premium. Source: Hotel Marketing